Useful Links

My Charities

The Cancer Council - Relay For Life
- A team event that I participate in annually to raise much-needed funds for research, education and support programs.
If you would like to support me in this, please click on The Cancer Council - Relay For Life link above to donate

Personal Motivation and Inspiration

Good Things
- Want to fill your head (and your soul) with lots of positive information? For a wealth of good news, good stories, good actions and good people, visit this website.

Random Acts of Kindness
- There’s a whole site about this, which includes free e-cards, free lesson plans for schools and a facility to set up your own Kindness web site!

The Foundation for a Better Life
- has a mission to “encourage adherence to a set of quality values through personal accountability and by raising the level of expectations of performance of all individuals regardless of religion or race. Through these efforts, the Foundation wants to remind individuals they are accountable and empowered with the ability to take responsibility for their lives and to promote a set of values that sees them through their failures and capitalizes on their successes.” Worth a visit.

Business Owners

The Entrepreneur Business Centre
- (a division of CCH) is a niche small business site specifically targeting people who are in the process of starting or developing a small business. They offer a free 7-day trial subscription to their Information Resource Centre – plus heaps of information of importance to the new or established small business owner.

Entrepreneur
- Solutions for Growing Businesses. Covers Money and Finance, Sales and Marketing, Technology and e-Business … and much more!

Research

E Marketer
- A good source for Internet and E-Business Research and Analysis can be found at this website.

I recently attended a three-day women’s festival that I attended for the first time in 2016. It’s never the same the second, third or umpteenth time around is it? First of all, there’s that ‘first time newness’ that we can only get once. “Wow! Look at that!” “Goodness, that’s amazing!” And so on … because we are seeing things through fresh, first-time eyes.

In our subsequent visits, while we look for that same magic, but logically know it will be different than our beloved ‘first-time’. We then start to notice what’s not there that we liked the previous year(s), and lament “But I really liked that!”

So this year, I decided to focus instead on what was new, different and intriguing. And that’s how I came across The Release Tree.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it. (I’ve seen this attributed to Dan Millman)

Courage is resistance to fear. (Thanks Mark Twain)

Courage is mastery of fear. (Mark Twain again)

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. (Kelly Clarkson made this line famous in her pop song)

In other words, grit your teeth and move on regardless. Tough it out. Toughen up.

A lot of people who know me say I’m one of the most tenacious, determined, “courageous” people they know. And I’ve always kind of liked this. I’m proud that I ‘hang in there’, dig deep and find my way through challenges.

My father (bless you, dad) had a saying that went something like this: “The real measure of a person’s character is how they handle adversity.” And I liked this too – for most of my life.

Whenever I was going through a tough time, I’d remember my dad’s words and think ‘keep going, Sandi – you’re developing character. People will admire you for the fact that you’ve made it through all this crap.’ And so I did keep going (though I’m not sure this really earned me brownie points in the admiration-from-other-people stakes).